When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Confident because of our caution